- August 21st, 2018, 2:19 pm
#147866
As stated above by Burnt, there's multiple aspects to look at when it comes to the servers current state. One main thing you must understand is "back then" there was 50k / 40k players playing Unturned monthly, whilst now Unturned is at 14-19k players monthly (Stats taken from steamcharts) back then we had a lot more choices when it came to hiring staff members, and we would only stick with those that were 18+, more of the mature audiences which is one of the main reason the staff team was better back then, because due to the excess of players on Unturned at least 5% of these were of mature audience, which is the only people we hired before.
Although now, with 14k monthly players, our choices have been massively restricted, to the point to where we have to settle with what we have otherwise we would have no staff members whatsoever, as the only players that are left now are those of a younger age. And unfortunately the younger audience lacks a lot of features, many of which you stated. If you're younger, you're not as caring as many people haven't gone through life experiences yet, therefore yes, it's true. Our staff members are less likely to hop on when requested multiple times, and tend to disappear more without reasoning. But this does not mean the higher-ups are not doing anything to stop this. We do request of our staff members constantly to get on, issue punishments towards these that fail to do so, enforce activity and so on. We have many demotions happening every week, but unfortunately, this is how the playerbase currently is. Filled of less of the mature-audience, and more with the younger ones, although this does not mean we still highly appreciate the had work that our current staff members put on our servers, as not all of them are like that, and I know many staff members that have put their life aside to focus on helping our players out, and putting an incredible amount of time onto our servers, without expecting anything back.
The truth hurts, but that's just how it is, unfortunately Unturned is in a horrible state at this moment in time, with horrible performance, highly decreased player base due to multiple reasons that I'd like to not go through right now. If you take a look around Unturned, all of the big communities that were up back then are gone. Lyhme went from 20+ servers down to 4, of which are constantly 0/24. Frezzerr only has 1 server that is 15/24 ish, then the rest 0/24. BrainZ, and so on. We are one of the only big communities that have stuck with Unturned since day 1, and have not decided to close and done our absolute best to keep Unturned alive up until 4.0 releases.
We also have so many plans of things to do for when 4.0 comes out that you guys will absolutely love, but unfortunately until that happens, we have to try our hardest to keep this community alive, because the only time unturned will get back to its original playerbase will hopefully be when 4.0 comes out, bringing in a mass amount of players allowing for us to start out strong and show the players why Pandahut has been will continue to be one of best communities that Unturned has to offer.
I understand where you're coming from OP, but from a staff member that has been in this community for the past 3 years, I assure you that we are not happy with the current state that we are in, but we are still trying our best to make it as good as we are able to until Unturned gets into a better state. Having said that, I will be closing this topic down to avoid further uninformed statements. If any of you have any further inquiries / concerns that you'd like to address, then please get in contact with me and I'll be more than happy to listen to them, and ensure that the staff team does their best to improve on these.
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